• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Astronomy is critical towards understanding the foundational principles of reality. Observing the universe around us is the guide for where physics should follow

    And I think most people would agree that understanding how our world works, the physics of it all, is very very useful in unforeseen ways. Cannot hope to make a circuit if you don’t know how electricity works, right?

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Again, I’m not poopooing scientific endeavor. I love science. But this person seemed to be mystified that we weren’t all majorly reacting to this news as if this possible fact, in itself, was life changing. For most people, it changes nothing about their day to day lives.